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Leadership provides a critical review and analysis of the key components of leadership. Against an historical backdrop, the text explores the foundations of good leadership, the relationship between leaders and subordinates and the role leaders play in the dynamics of organisational life. Taking a critical perspective, this text is an ideal course companion for undergraduate and MBA students studying leadership.
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KEITH GRINT is Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster Management School, UK.
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Grint (leadership studies, Lancaster Management School, UK) explores why it is that nobody seems to agree about the definition of leadership, and its characteristics. He argues that there are at least four aspects to varieties of leadership definition (leadership as Person, Result, Process and Position). Each of these aspects is then examined with great precision and using great and unusual examples, many of which illuminate aspects of leadership the reader will enjoy. We have used this book in a MSc distance learning course (University of Birmingham) and I thoroughly enjoyed it because of its unusual perspectives on leadership with a strong theoretical foundation and great examples. It may not be the typical leadership pep-talk of a DIY manual for CEOs but it raises many important questions that few other textbooks on this issue address.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, which was chosen by the University of Birmingham for their MPA program, for two reasons: a very good theoretical perspective on leadership and interesting examples. From the beginning, Grint identifies a clear analysis framework for leadership along four dimensions: person, result, position, and process. Theoretically, it's an interesting attempt to apply ANT (Action-Network Theory) to analysis of leadership (althogh this application is not systematic across all dimensions). The examples are refreshing, yammy: from King Lear and Dr. Strangelove to the Battle of Normandy, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the US civil rights movement. Ater so many leadership 'manuals' with their endless recommendations on how to lead (principle-centered leadership, excellency, blah-blah-blah), this is a book that stimulates thinking about the essense of leadership, raising questions rather than supplying ready answers.
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